svn commit: r316800 - stable/10/usr.sbin/makefs
Brooks Davis
brooks at FreeBSD.org
Fri Apr 14 00:15:36 UTC 2017
Author: brooks
Date: Fri Apr 14 00:15:34 2017
New Revision: 316800
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/316800
Log:
MFC r316593:
Point out that -F probably does not do what the user expects.
Users attempting to create images from mtree METALOG files created by
installworld often use -F when they should be passing the METALOG file
in place of a directory. This is often produces difficult to debug
error reports.
Reviewed by: emaste
Sponsored by: DARPA, AFRL
Modified:
stable/10/usr.sbin/makefs/makefs.8
Directory Properties:
stable/10/ (props changed)
Modified: stable/10/usr.sbin/makefs/makefs.8
==============================================================================
--- stable/10/usr.sbin/makefs/makefs.8 Fri Apr 14 00:14:40 2017 (r316799)
+++ stable/10/usr.sbin/makefs/makefs.8 Fri Apr 14 00:15:34 2017 (r316800)
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd November 15, 2015
+.Dd April 6, 2017
.Dt MAKEFS 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -115,6 +115,12 @@ set in
.Ar debug-mask .
XXX: document these
.It Fl F Ar mtree-specfile
+.Em This is almost certainly not the option you are looking for.
+To create an image from a list of files in an mtree format manifest,
+specify it as the last argument on the commandline, not as a the
+argument to
+.Fl F .
+.Pp
Use
.Ar mtree-specfile
as an
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